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Grade 6-7 & 8-9 Visual Arts
Standards
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Standard (Curriculum)
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Instruction and Assessment
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Standard
1. The student understands and applies visual arts knowledge and
skills
1.1
Explains and applies the concepts of art using visual arts
vocabulary
Elements
* Identifies and mixes complementary colors to form
neutrals
* Identifies and uses warm/cool colors as advancing and receding
in space
* Identifies and uses form and texture in 2D and 3D art
forms
Principles of Organization (Design)
* Uses movement of the viewers eye within a composition
* Differentiates between realistic, non-objective, and abstract
works of art
1.2
Explains and develops visual arts skills and techniques
* Understands and demonstrates gradations of value both in
neutrals and in colors
* Uses a wide variety of media singularly and in
combination
1.3
Understands, identifies, and uses visual arts styles from various
artists, cultures, and times
* Identifies techniques from various artists, cultures, and/or
times
1.4
Demonstrates audience skills in a variety of visual arts settings
and performances
* Identifies how the audience and artist/performer
interact
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Standard 2.
The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic
processes
2.1
Develops and applies to work with instructor assistance using a
creative process in the arts
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Conceptualizes that context or purpose
* Gathers information from diverse sources
* Develops ideas and techniques
* Organizes arts elements, forms, and/or principles into a
creative work
* Reflects for the purpose of elaboration and
self-evaluation
* Refines work based on feedback
* Presents work to others
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques
through a creative process
2.2
Understands performance processes in the arts
* Identifies audience and purpose
* Selects artistic work (repertoire) to perform
* Analyzes the structure and background or work
* Interpret by developing a personal approach to work
* Rehearse, adjust and refine through evaluation and
problem-solving
* Present work for others; reflects, and evaluates
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques
through a performance process
2.3
Understands a responding process in the arts
* Engages actively and purposefully
* Describes what is seen and heard
* Analyzes how the elements are arranged and organized
* Interprets based on descriptive properties
* Evaluates using supportive evidence and criteria
* Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills,
and techniques through a performance process
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Standard 3.
The student communicates through visual
arts
3.1
Explains and applies arts to express and present ideas and
feelings
* Identifies use and misuse (plagiarism) of pre-existing artistic
works to communicate
3.2
Applies and explains visual arts to communicate for a specific
purpose
* Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose (e.g., to
record history, persuade)
3.3
Explains and applies personal aesthetic criteria to communicate
artistic choices
* Describes how aesthetic choices are influenced by historical
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Standard 4.
The student makes connections within and across visual arts, to
other disciplines, cultures, life, and
work
4.1
Explains and applies the connections among visual arts
disciplines
* Demonstrates that art concepts occur in other content
areas
4.2
Explains and applies the connections between visual arts and other
content areas
* Demonstrates that art concepts occur in other content
areas
4.3
Explains and applies how visual arts impact lifelong
choices
* Analyzes how the arts impact peer group choices
4.4
Explains and applies that visual arts shape and reflect culture and
history
* Identifies specific attributes of artworks that reflect culture
and history
4.5
Explains and applies knowledge of arts careers and the role of
visual arts skills in the world or work
* Identifies job specific skills for arts careers
* Demonstrates collaborative skills
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Grade 8-9 Dance Standards
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Standard (Curriculum)
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Instruction and Assessment
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Standard
1. The student understands and applies arts knowledge and
skills
1.1.1
Understands arts concepts and vocabulary: Elements (Space,
Time, Energy/force)
* Explains and applies the concepts of visual art, dance, theatre,
and music using arts vocabulary
* Maintains a steady beat and holds the tempo in half time and
double time (time)
* Demonstrates a range of efforts actions (e.g., glide, float,
flick, dab, punch, slash, wring, press) (energy)
1.1.2
Understands arts concepts and vocabulary: Principles of
Organization
* Repetition, Balance, Contrast, Emphasis, and
Variety
* Explains and applies the concepts of visual art, dance, theatre,
and music using arts vocabulary
* Demonstrates theme and variation in choreography (form)
* Creates transitions to develop fluency in dance
1.2
Develops arts skills and techniques
* Develops arts skills and techniques
* Demonstrates the ability to reverse a simple movement
combination
* Demonstrates the ability to move with others through a variety
of geometric formations
* Understands correct alignment principle
1.3
Understands and applies arts styles from various artists, cultures,
and times
* Applies techniques from various artists, cultures, and/or
times
1.4
Applies audience skills in a variety of arts settings and
performances
* Understands and demonstrates the relationship and interactive
responsibilities of the artist/performer and audience
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Standard 2.
The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic
processes
2.1
Applies a creative process in the arts
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Conceptualizes that context or purpose
* Gathers information from diverse sources
* Develops ideas and techniques
* Organizes arts elements, forms, and/or principles into a
creative work
* Reflects for the purpose of elaboration and
self-evaluation
* Refines work based on feedback
* Presents work to others
* Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills,
and techniques through a creative process
2.2
Applies a performance process in the arts
* Identifies audience and purpose
* Selects artistic work (repertoire) to perform
* Analyzes the structure and background or work
* Interpret by developing a personal approach to work
* Rehearse, adjust and refine through evaluation and
problem-solving
* Present work for others; reflects, and evaluates
* Reflects and evaluates
* Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills,
and techniques through a performance process
2.3
Applies a responding process to an arts presentation
* Engages actively and purposefully
* Describes what is seen and heard
* Analyzes how the elements are arranged and organized
* Interprets based on descriptive properties
* Evaluates using supportive evidence and criteria
* Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills,
and techniques through a performance process
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Standard 3.
The student communicates through the
arts
3.1 Uses
the arts to express and present ideas and feelings
* Expresses ideas and feelings through the arts in a variety of
styles
* Describes use and misuse of pre-existing artistic works to
communicate
3.2 Uses
the arts to communicate for a specific purpose
* Creates and/or performs an artwork to communicate for a selected
purpose with instructor assistance
3.3
Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic
choices
* Explains how aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and
history
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Standard 4.
The student makes connections within and across the arts, to other
disciplines, cultures, life, and work
4.1
Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts
disciplines
* Compares and contrasts attributes of personal art work with
other arts disciplines
4.2
Demonstrates and analyzes the connections between the arts and
other content areas
* Explains relationships between the arts and other content
areas
4.3
Understands how the arts impact lifelong choices
* Analyzes how the arts impact choices in natural and constructed
environments
4.4
Understands that the arts shape and reflect culture and
history
* Compares and contrasts specific attributes of artworks that
reflect culture and history
4.5
Demonstrates knowledge of arts careers and the role of arts skills
in the world of work
* Describes work habits and skills needed for careers in the
arts
* Explains how art skills and knowledge are used in the world of
work
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